WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Over three days, Ane invites you to immerse yourself in the organic world of basketry, exploring the precision, patience, and creativity needed to create an organic form.

With traditional willow and basketry techniques as your foundation, it will become a sculptural piece, something functional, and simply an opportunity to play with colour, form, and possibility.

Ane describes discovering willow, wickerwork, and basketry as “like finding a new love.” For over 20 years, she has shared this love through teaching in Denmark and internationally, using traditional techniques to create work guided by her hands, heart, and imagination.

• SKILL LEVEL: Beginner to Intermediate. Some experience required.

• $950 + hst

Ane Lyngsgaard

Instructor Bio: Discovering the world of willow, wickerwork and basketry was like finding a new love. The fascination of using my hands, learning an old handicraft and slowly identifying a new world, added a new dimension to my life. I experienced time and again – when my frustration was massive and the baskets no good - suddenly to break through and uncover a new form. To wake up in the middle of the night, my head full of images of baskets, and just know exactly how they were supposed to feel and look. For 30 years I have been teaching basketry in Denmark and other countries. I use the old techniques to create what my hands and heart tell me. For 20 years I have been teaching new design for weaving groups in different countries in Africa.

I have written two books: Bark – a wonderful world, and “Fletterier”

In 2023 I launched the basketry app Baskets2day and Flet Nu.